Designed to help parents:

• Identify their strengths and recognize their individual and collective power.
• Develop their leadership skills and identify ways to contribute to their school.
• Get to know each other and recognize that they can be a powerful influence in children's lives.

Provides 100 reading activities, per grade, for children in kindergarten through third grade, to encourage greater family involvement in helping children improve reading skills and achievement. The School-Home Links activities are aligned with the Colorado Model Content Standards for Reading and Writing.

Designed to provide parents with information on how to:

Develop a positive home learning environment.
Help their children develop positive homework habits.
Communicate effectively with their children and their children's teacher.

The assets philosophy offers a strengths-based approach to working with young people that gives parents and teachers a common language and framework to inspire young people to achieve their full potential.

This workshop focuses on how parents can help their children prepare for the CSAP assessment.

The faces of children in classrooms across Colorado are becoming more diverse every year. More and more immigrant children enter our classrooms speaking different languages and often, teachers are not sure how to reach out to their families and effectively engage them in the education process.

To address this need, the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition published two documents. The informational booklet, Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in their Children's Education: A Guide for Teachers highlights the differences between the education systems in Colorado and Mexico , the cultural strengths of Mexican immigrant families and practical ways to engage them in the education process. Asegurando el Éxito Académico de Nuestros Hijos(as) also highlights the differences between the two education systems and the cultural strengths of Mexican immigrant families. It is primarily designed to help immigrant parents understand the education system in Colorado so they can become full partners in their children's education.

Many Mexican immigrants, even our most involved, do not fully understand the education system in Colorado . Many don't realize that in Colorado , effective parent involvement is one of the most significant factors impacting high student achievement.

The Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition offers a full-day Trainer of Trainers (TOT) workshop or a ½ day informational workshop to interested schools or school districts on “ Engaging Mexican Immigrant Parents in Their Children's Education” .

For more information or to schedule a training in your area, contact:
the CSPC staff at 720-890-0123.

The Three Step Process is an effective way for parents to prepare their child to be ready for kindergarten. This program is designed to 1) provide parents with parenting skills, 2) equip parents with techniques to teach their child pre-literacy and pre-writing skills, and 3) provide coaching and mentoring to parents in the home.

Parents who have four-year olds are invited to attend the Three-Step Process training where they go through a comprehensive training in:

21st Century Exploring Parenting.
Constructing Academic Success and Achievement.
Home Learning Support Program for ECE: Coaching and Mentoring.

The result is that in the fall when the four-year old enters kindergarten at the age of five, he or she will score at grade level or above in the district's kindergarten readiness assessment.

Los Padres curriculum and training process was developed in 1997. This curriculum was created to train fathers to be more actively involved with their children and with their children's education. After three years of training with fathers, the mothers/wives began asking for a similar training. The mothers wanted to become involved in a similar type of training because of the significant transformation they observed in their husbands toward their children and themselves. In May 2000, at the annual Colorado Statewide Parent Conference, a special session was created to talk with mothers about creating Las Madres training. In 2001 Patsy Roybal and Ricardo Garcia of the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition met with a group of mothers to develop the Las Madres training Program. The Las Madres curriculum was expanded to include information about early infant development as well as making the appropriate gender changes in language. The initial training was supported with funding from Colorado Parent Information Resource Center.

The success of the Las Madres and of the Los Padres training programs is due, of course, to the mothers’ and the fathers’ dedication to ensuring the educational success of their children. This curriculum and training process for fathers and mothers is the result of almost 20 years of grassroots work of the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition (CSPC).

Conceptual Outline:

I. Child Development A. Multiple Intelligences B. How Children Learn C. Children's Assets D. Discipline E. Culture F. Learning Strategies	II. Communication A. Nonverbal B. Intentionality C. Wait-time D. Conversation E. Effective Listening F. Interaction Strategies
III. Leadership A. Leadership Examples B. Fathers'/Mothers’ Leadership C. Description of leadership behaviors D. Leadership Demonstrated by their children E. Advocating for our children F. Developing a declaration of Fathers' /Mothers’ Rights and Responsibilities

Based on the same curriculum as Los Padres and was developed upon requests from numerous mothers whose husbands had participated in the Los Padres Program.